According to results from the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 4.8 percent of young adults aged 18 to 25 admitted to using non-prescribed psychotherapeutic drugs in the last month. 1.1 … [Read more...]

I don’t have time to meditate, do you?
I make do with 15 minutes of sitting here and there: in the train, or before leaving for work. It's all I can to keep practicing, and that’s not nearly as … [Read more...]

There's a pile of clothes sitting by my bed. It's been there for a week, and chances are that heap of shame will build up for another three days. Stained T-shirts, moldy work-out outfits, ugh....
I … [Read more...]

I need to quit wondering if I'm a regular guy: the answers I come up with are never too reassuring.
Fitting in is a common concern for humans, I'm no exception. During cold winters, in the … [Read more...]

Plants grow, that’s what they do, you don’t need to talk wheat into growing, hence organic farmers don’t kick sprouts out of the ground, they just let them do their job.
Farmers provide the right … [Read more...]

Today, I deleted it my Facebook account. Again (I already took a FB sabbatical, years ago).
For the second time my neurotic brain came up with the same insecure drivel :
"What if I lose touch … [Read more...]

From the individual point of view, solving worldwide issues is not going to do you any good. It's not going to help me either (I'm already busy enough paying the IRS back).
Let's face it, … [Read more...]

They took him out of the car. The man was a wreck, he was barely able to lift his head and his deformed legs lied in a wheelchair. Two monks carried him slowly, with extreme care, as if he would fall … [Read more...]

If you're black, you're the usual suspect, they'll call you nigger or just "person of color" and you'll get the evil eye in the bus and the restaurant.
It's easy to be rejected, all it takes is to … [Read more...]

Since I started gr0wing.com, I've been receiving emails from every parts of the earth: India, the UK, France, Denmark, the USA. The Internet has delivered its promise as a global conversation … [Read more...]

Of all the statements I heard about depression, the dumbest ones came out of my own mouth. Yet, overtime I had to soften up: most of my family suffers from depression and I was diagnosed with it too, … [Read more...]

A couple of years have passed since I wrote "4 things you should know if you want to be a Buddhist monk". I was not aware this post would be read by 33000 people, many of whom subsequently emailed me … [Read more...]

Your mind was set, you were going to meditate every single day, so you sold off your PS4 on ebay and turned your bedroom into a minimalistic Zen garden. You were OMG so sure that this mindfulness … [Read more...]

When there's only crap on the menu, it's OK to leave the restaurant and go eat somewhere else.
It's OK, really, yet how many times did social pressure force you to endure a painful time in a place … [Read more...]

There is more to Meditation than stress release and focus enhancement. Some Tibetan Buddhist masters say that the fruits of mind practice are actually limitless, they also say that you can experience … [Read more...]